romance

One study by researchers at Liverpool John Moores University examining Love Island and relationship education, found some young people do look to reality dating programmes for ideas about romance and relationship behaviour.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Did you set out at the time to make your version of a romance?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

A primer for romance in the digital age: People talk a lot about how dating apps have made it harder to meet someone.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

This is a movie made by a Gen Z director, geared toward his younger peers, many of whom are navigating romance in the digital age.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

None of these women talk about any other kind of romance.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Many shows feature wild, fast-moving plot lines, about topics ranging from secret billionaire husbands to forbidden romances, that are designed to keep viewers glued to their screens.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

In “Conundrum,” Morris claimed that it had “seemed perfectly natural to me to play the girl’s role” in schoolboy romances at Lancing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

But while Penn's romances have had their well-chronicled highs and lows, his acting career only followed one trajectory: up.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” may catch the same current wave of pop-inflected Gothic-style romances as Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026

While I learned the importance of virtue from Elnora's conduct books, Gertrude's romances held out the delights of love and the means to achieve them.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Still, if my nostalgia-clouded memory serves me correctly, our alleged aimlessness and "whatever" philosophy is amply romanced in movies.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

The great age of rail lasted until the greater age of the automobile, and the airplane, but even as we abandoned the train for our own wheels, we romanced it in our imaginations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

But his role as a small-time hood who romanced American ingenue Jean Seberg in Godard's "Breathless" earned him international stardom.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2021

Both of their dating lives made for gossip fodder at the time, by the way, as Damon dated Winona Ryder and Affleck romanced Gwyneth Paltrow.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2021

He dated models and actresses and romanced his stunning American wife after standing behind her in line to use the phone at Heathrow Airport.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Maria believed she was romancing a prince from Dubai, captivated by his flirtatious smile and declarations of affection he showered on her during live video calls.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Palmer found himself spending time trying to get his expenses cleared through an incompetent bureaucracy, rather than romancing a beautiful girl on a sandy beach.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

It’s part of a larger pattern of romancing younger men on the national and international stage, often ones he has attacked.

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025

When their rapacious cousin Charles appears, hoping to find buried treasure in the house and romancing the “pink and white and golden” Constance, Merricat takes drastic action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Katie was annoyed at this tendency and kept warning Francie to tell the plain truth and to stop romancing.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith